Rodrigo Duterte won Phillippine´s national elections last Monday, and he is becoming the new President on 30th of June, as Constitution claims. Achieving the great majority of the votes over 55 millions of voters, the chief of PDP-Laban Party has overcome all his opponents, including Mar Roxas, candidate of the Liberal Party, which had been ruling the country up to these elections under President Benigno Aquino mandate. The other defeated candidates are Bejomar Binay, from UNA (United Nationalist Alliance) and Grace Poe, independent, amongst others.

Alongside presidency, the elections has also been used to choose the Vice-president, the senators and congresses. Although the president holds almost all the power as Head of the State, Head of the Government and as the Commander of the Army, vice-president may always oppose its opinion to the presidents as a step to presidency. This time, it seems that Leni Robredo will become the vice-president despite of there is no apparent difference amongst her and Ferdinand Marcos, who belongs to Nationalist party. In case of this case, Philippines would face a polemic and a questioning democracy president confronted to a pro-poors activist.

By calling Mr Duterte “The Punisher”, the people wants to say that there is hidden a history of controversy under his identity. Amongst some of his facts, it has been claimed that he is a dictator as well as it has been confirmed that he has murdered more than a thousand people in order to eradicate criminality in Davao, where he has been the mayor more than twenty years. Moreover, he has cursed Pope Francis in such a religious country. Inside its country, Mr Duterte´s way could perfectly end up with a democracy that it is not old at all, in case he keeps going on using same ways it used to use in Davao.

People got fed up with high rates of criminality and corruption at the same time they have been punished by politicians from Manila, the capital of Philippines. These could maybe have been the reasons for voting Mr Duterte, who has said he will keep going on the economic way of the Aquino´s Government, followed by a macro economically speaking, which produce benefits. However, Duterte knows that people did not vote him just to keep economy growing but also to reduce the crime in the country.

Outside of the country, Philippines could also turn into a controversial actor in South China Sea according to Duterte´s position on China´s and the surrounding countries and the reclamations over the islands. His intention is to carry out a double way to relate with China. Philippines will come closer to China in order to negotiate the economy. At the same time, Duterte claims territorial disputes with China without any United Nations intervention, as the last president used to do. However, it does not mean giving up at all. Moreover, coming closer to China could also affect relations between US and Philippines, allies so far.